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Some believe the government is controlling us with chemicals projected from planes. (It isn’t.) (Picture: Getty Images)

There are those who subscribe to a theory that the condensation formed in the sky by jet planes are, in fact, chemtrails, which are harmful chemicals dropped onto an unsuspecting populace for the purposes of public control and the manipulation of the weather.

It sounds far-fetched, we think you’ll agree, but it has taken until now to produce a peer-reviewed journal paper dealing with the theory.

Researchers at the University of Calfornia at Irvine, the Carnegie Institute for Science and the Near Zero organisations asked 77 leaders in the field if they had ever seen any evidence which suggested that aluminium, barium or any other chemicals had been projected out of aircraft.

Seventy-six said no, which, more than anything, really, leads us to want to know more about the maverick 77th scientist who said yes.

The use of chemtrails is just one geoengineering technique, this lot believe (Picture: Getty Images)

‘The chemtrails conspiracy theory maps pretty closely to the origin and growth of the internet, where you can still find a number of websites that promote this particular brand of pseudoscience,’ said Steven Davis, the study’s co-author and associate professor of Earth system science at UCI.

‘Our survey found little agreement in the scientific community with claims that the government, the military, airlines, and others are colluding in a widespread, nefarious program to poison the planet from the skies.’

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So that seems settled, then.

Something tells us, however, that hardcore adherents to the theory won’t be deterred.